Condamine residents to front flood inquiry

A resident from Condamine, on southern Queensland's Western Downs, says she will tell the floods commission of inquiry there need to be clearer lines of communication when towns are threatened by natural disasters.

Deputy Commissioner Jim O'Sullivan is holding a community meeting in the town this morning.

Condamine was evacuated twice during December and January when the Condamine River reached record levels.

Local business owner Gillian Low says residents were often the last to know what was happening at the height of the emergency.

"Even the police guys that were here, they were doing the best they could but they weren't told," she said.

"Ergon Energy came in and were turning off power left, right and centre, they told us it was going to 15 metres - now how come they knew and no-one had told us?"